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Realtors
are expressing concern over three measures that exist in either the House or
the Senate versions of the Republican tax cut bill and have sent a letter to Orrin
Hatch (R-UT) and Kevin Brady (R-TX), chairs of the Senate Banking and House
Ways and Means Committees respectively, about these issues. The letter was sent
...Read More

Both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae announced this week
that evictions from foreclosed single-family and two-to-four-unit properties
owned by the GSEs will be suspended during the holiday season. The moratorium will begin on December 18 and
extend through January 2 of next year. The two companies said that ...Read More

Applications for mortgages,
both for home purchases and refinancing, declined during the week ended
December 8. The Mortgage Bankers
Association (MBA) said its Market Composite Index, a measure of loan
application volume, was down 2.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis compared
to the volume a week earlier. On an
una...Read More

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) projects a
decrease in new home sales in November compared to the previous month, but
still sees those sales running well ahead of last year. MBA"s Builder Applications Survey (BAS),
conducted among mortgage subsidiaries of home construction companies, indicates
that sales during the...Read More

Loans performed well in September, continuing to erase
most of the last vestiges of the market"s Great Recession distress. The CoreLogic Performance Insights Report for the month says the national
delinquency rate is now 5.0 percent. This ties September with August as the
lowest rate since 2007. With the rate so low, measu...Read More

As banks and government tried to stem the flow of
foreclosures during the housing crisis there was a lot of debate (and criticism) about what needed to be done and how to do it. The acting
director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Edward DeMarco fought tooth and nail to prevent Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) from being force...Read More

After dropping in October from what had been an all-time high the previous
month, Fannie Mae"s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) resumed its upward trek, increasing by 2.6 points in November to 87.8,
Strong responses to questions in the National Housing Survey (NHS) to questions
about whether it was a good time to buy a home and ...Read More

Loan
limits will be rising in 2018 for loans guaranteed by the FHA. The Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) announced on Thursday it was boosting limits for those loans
in more than 3,000 counties. This will
bring FHA loans in line with those of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Federal
Housing Finance Agency ...Read More

Nine
years after what is acknowledged as the start of the housing crisis about 2.5
million homeowners remain underwater, but that number is down by 0.7 million
since the third quarter of 2016.
CoreLogic said today that those homeowners remain in negative equity
despite rapid increases in the equity of homeowners nationwi...Read More

"Gig," a term that used to refer mostly to
a musician"s booking, is now being used to describe a whole sector of the U.S.
economy. Fannie Mae defines it, rather
narrowly we think, as the on-line, on-demand services such as ride sharing and
accommodation, and included questions about it in their Third Quarter
National Housing S...Read More